Other forms: trailblazers
A trailblazer is somebody who is first to open up a new path. A real trailblazer, trailblazers in the field, hailed as a trailblazer.
The literal work behind the word was cutting marks into trees to show a route through forest, which is what a trailblazer did. It is used most of the first woman or the first outsider to reach somewhere.
1nountrailblazerSomebody who is first to open up a new path.
“The small company was a trailblazer in electric cars long before the big manufacturers took them seriously.”
trailblazer is a pioneer.
Trail plus blazer, from blazing a trail by cutting marks into trees.
From trail + blazer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA